India, what Can it Teach Us?: A Course of Lectures Delivered Before the University of Cambridge

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Longmans, Green and Company, 1892 - 315 pages
 

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Note A p
259
p
271
E p
278
G p 137
287
99
294

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Page 5 - And the king said, Divide the living child in two, and give half to the one, and half to the other.
Page 56 - ... established in every village for teaching reading, writing, and arithmetic, the general practice of hospitality and charity amongst each other, and above all, a treatment of the female sex full of confidence, respect, and delicacy, are among the signs which denote a civilised people...
Page 100 - But for those obstinate questionings Of sense and outward things, Fallings from us, vanishings ; Blank misgivings of a Creature Moving about in worlds not realised...
Page 310 - Vols. XXVII and XXVIII. The Sacred Books of China. The Texts of Confucianism.
Page 190 - O righteous king, have mercy on me ! Like as a rope from a calf remove from me my sin; for away from thee I am not master even of the twinkling of an eye.
Page 176 - Then spake Joshua to the LORD in the day when the LORD delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel, and he said in the sight of Israel, Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon; and thou, Moon, in the valley of Ajalon. And the sun stood still, and the moon stayed, until the people had avenged themselves upon their enemies.
Page 127 - Hindus had undoubtedly made some progrees at an early period in the astronomy cultivated by them for the regulation of time. Their calendar, both civil and religious, was governed chiefly, not exclusively, by the moon and sun : and the motions of these luminaries were carefully observed by them, and with such success, that their determination of the moon's synodical revolution, which was what they were principally concerned with, is a much more correct one than the Greeks ever achieved...
Page 194 - O LORD, thou hast searched me, and known me. Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off. Thou compassest my path and my lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways. For there is not a word in my tongue, but, lo, O Lord, thou knowest it altogether.
Page 176 - Marvellous things did he in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan. 13 He divided the sea, and caused them to pass through ; and he made the waters to stand as an heap.
Page 240 - No mortal lives by the breath that goes up and by the breath that goes down. We live by another, in whom these two repose.

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